It is said that a greater quantity of volatile alkali can be obtained from this kind of flesh, to which has been ascribed its stimulating quality.
But it is more probable, that fresh flesh contains only the elements of volatile alkali.
These appearances were the same with any substance that contained volatile alkali, fluid or solid.
The distilled water saturated with fixed air neither effervesced, nor shewed any clouds, when mixed with the fixed or volatile alkali.
It goes also by the general name of a Volatile Alkali, whether in a concrete or in a liquid form.
Let us therefore return to the properties of volatile alkali.
The third alkali, ammonia, has been distinguished by the name of volatile alkali, because its natural form is that of gas.
On the contrary, when nitrous air is made to pass over red-hot iron, volatile alkali is produced.
If the human calculus be distilled, it yields a volatile alkali, and something sublimes from it which has a sourish taste, and therefore called the acid of the calculus.
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